I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。

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We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

我们已经爱上了肉体。就是那个从镜子里看着我们的东西。那是你一生都在追寻的可爱身份的宝库。

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

是的,写书很简单,因为你不是一个团队的成员,所以你自己做所有的决定,而不是服从委员会。

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

因此,对钦定版,甚至是修订版,宣称无误,就等于对那些从未宣称无误的人宣称无误。

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

科学的主要目的是简单,随着我们理解的东西越来越多,一切都变得越来越简单。

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

总之,我更喜欢共和制度,因为它更接近上帝的制度。

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

老年是暴君,他在死亡的痛苦下禁止青年的欢乐。

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

如果我幸福而他不幸,也许国王会随我而改变。